Comedy followers are declaring placing similarities in current sketches from “Saturday Night Live” and BYUtv’s “Studio C.”
As first reported on information outlet LateNighter, a sketch that aired on the present on Nov. 8 bore resemblance to at least one that aired on “Studio C” only a few days earlier on Nov. 3. Each sketches riffed on the Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast,” changing the titular Beast with widespread YouTuber MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson.
The “SNL” parody confirmed host Nikki Glaser as Belle and solid member Ben Marshall as a hybrid of Disney’s Beast and the YouTuber, who is understood for staging elaborate challenges with big money prizes for contestants.
“I’m keeping her dad trapped in a dungeon for 30 days for a chance to win over $300,000,” Marshall says within the sketch. “For every pound he loses, I’ll give a Tesla to a random stranger.” Solid members Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang seem as variations of Cogsworth and Lumière.
Studio C’s sketch additionally had MrBeast in an outdated French fort staging an elaborate recreation present for an unwitting Belle. Within the sketch, MrBeast says he’s trapped 100 servants within the fort.
“The only way they’re gonna get their human bodies back is if they make this lady fall in love with me,” he says. Progress within the recreation is tracked by the variety of petals falling off of a rose.
Whereas the “SNL” sketch featured Beast in full costume, Studio C opted for its MrBeast to put on a blue hoodie emblazoned with “Beast.” As a substitute of getting Belle in her signature yellow ball robe as on “SNL,” Studio C’s model portrayed Belle in her blue gown.
Some commenters identified the similarities on-line.
“Now everyone needs to go watch the Studio C version of this skit… which happened to air 5 days before this SNL version,” one consumer wrote on the YouTube of the “SNL” video, whereas one other wrote on Studio C’s video, ”I feel this model works higher than the SNL model as a result of it’s a parody of Mr. Beast’s complete video type, whereas the SNL skit was only a film trailer parody with Mr. Beast thrown in as a personality.”
“Did #snl realize that @BYUtv’s sketch show Studio C did Beauty and Mr Beast last week?” one X consumer wrote.
Neither “SNL” nor BYUtv instantly responded to requests for remark.
This isn’t the primary time “SNL” has been accused of copying others’ work. In 2015, for instance, two individuals accused the present of ripping off their concept of a courting app the place individuals accept one another.
And in 2023, comic Yannis Pappas stated it was “hard to believe” that fellow comic Marcello Hernandez didn’t discover the similarities between one in every of his “SNL” characters and a persona Pappas has portrayed for years.
“I have been doing stand-up comedy for two decades now, so I am not an up-and-coming comedian,” Pappas stated to Web page Six on the time. “I am surprised nobody in the writer’s room spoke up about this. I find it hard to believe Marcello wasn’t aware of me and the character.”
